Has a judge finally identified the people behind a famous 2000 double murder of a Haitian journalist and his bodyguard—or is this just another political maneuver?
Haitian factory owners have fired some 26 union supporters since workers marched out to demand a higher minimum wage a month ago.
The expulsion of two politicians has revealed some of the fissures in former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s populist political party.
Assembly plant workers marked Human Rights Day by marching through the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince to push their demand for a minimum wage of $12 a day.
Police and goons removed 60 families from a camp north of the capital. This was the second eviction for many of the families, who lost their homes in the 2010 earthquake.
Haiti’s new council on wages issued its minimum wage levels for 2014, offering assembly plant workers a raise of eight cents an hour.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic aren’t at war, according to Haiti’s foreign minister, but hundreds of Haitians have fled the neighboring country amid a wave of violence.
The number of Haitians trying to reach the US through the Bahamas is increasing, and so are the fatalities.
After a year of struggle by Haitian workers supported by North American activists, two major garment companies have agreed to honor the legal minimum wage.
Protesters were met with tear gas, rocks and some shooting when they marched into the suburb where President Martelly lives.
Mauritania's opposition parties will boycott upcoming elections, seen as legitimizing a dictatorship, while a "Global Slavery Index" names the country as the world's worst offender.
The UN still refuses to accept responsibility for bringing cholera to Haiti. Now the epidemic is spreading to the Latin American mainland.
